Donnie Nietes immediately plunged into heavy sparring in Los Angeles (LA) as his buildup for his ambitious invasion of the flyweight ranks pushed into high gear.
His sights trained on becoming a three-division world champion, Nietes banged bodies with California-based Mexican Ricardo Rodriguez at the Wild Card Boxing Club of Freddie Roach.
Nietes goes up against former world champion Edgar Sosa on Sept. 24 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, a fight the 34-year-old Negros native believes will get him revved up for world fly king Juan Francisco Estrada.
?Donnie did great in sparing and we expect him to get better in the coming days and weeks,? reported ALA Boxing trainer Edito Villamor.
Nietes and two other ALA stablemates ? King Arthur Villanueva and Mark Magsayo ? left Manila for the US a week ago.
Villanueva and Magsayo, an exciting and unbeaten featherweight, are seeing action on the Nietes-Sosa headliner, the third foray on American soil of the Cebu-headquartered ALA Boxing owned and operated by father and son Tony and Michael Aldeguer.
Before deciding to go up in weight, Nietes reigned as world minimumweight and world light-fly titleholder.
